Media’s Coronavirus Propaganda For China Finally Catching Them
CNN uncritically repeats China s false statistics over and over again. NBC, MSNBC, BBC, The New York Times the list goes on, all without corrections or updates.
The corporate media s trumpeting of foreign propaganda is especially eager when it hurts the president they don t like. Outlets like Vox and BuzzFeed relentlessly attack Trump for not taking the coronavirus seriously enough early enough, but rushed to edit their past coverage that had authoritatively declared coronavirus less dangerous than the common flu. Vox, The New York Times and their television peers declare the president s use of Wuhan coronavirus racist, while editing and forgetting past coverage that used Wuhan coronavirus or explained why so many pandemics come from that country.
It s not shocking. As the virus spread across the planet, and as Americans worked furiously to stave off a global depression, the corporate media made clear their top concern was that Trump was mean to their friend Peter. It s a self-obsession thing: The story must be about them. But now the story really is about them. Will they have the guts to admit it?
Of course not.